I have no idea what section 3.4.1 is telling me... and it's the heart of
this spec. Granted, I'm not a mathematician. But am I the only one who
finds this conceptually a little unclear? Is it's lack of
comprehensibility just not a problem in this case? And if so, is "Basic"
the right term for the title?
Also, please remove the "simple" from this section. If you're trying to
say it's simple for marketing reasons, it's not working.
(Section 3.4.1 copied below for convenience)
- Mike Schwartz
Gluu
3.4.1. Basic Components
To describe Compounded Metadata Statements, we need a way of describing
the different components in such a statement. These are the basic
components:
ms_X
Metadata Statement signing request by X without signing keys and signed
metadata statements.
SK[X]
Signing keys that belong to X
X(MS)
Metadata Statement signed by X
A(ms_B + SK[B])
Using these basic components, we can now describe a simple signed
Metadata Statement as:
(ms_C + SK[C])
(ms_C + SK[C] + A(ms_B + SK[B]))
Creating a compounded metadata statements involves adding previously
signed metadata statements to the request before signing it. So, if we
start off with C sending this signing request to B,
B(ms_C + SK[C) + A(ms_B + SK[B]))
This is the resulting compounded metadata statement:
Note that the level N requester is the level N+1 signer.
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